Former President Donald Trump is planning a candlelight dinner fundraiser with his sons at his Florida Mar-a-Lago club this fall to help pay the legal bills of those ensnared in the four separate criminal cases he faces, sources familiar with the effort tell The Messenger.

The exact date and details of the event – which could raise between $500,000 to $1 million – are still being ironed out for the Patriot Legal Defense Fund, according to two sources familiar with the planning who did not have authorization to speak on the record.

The fund is designed to primarily help Trump’s codefendants and witnesses in the cases against him, and it’s supposed to operate in tandem with Trump’s Save America PAC, which will primarily handle his legal bills, the sources said.

[Better late than never? Rudy Giuliani’s camp has gone quasi-public with complaints that Trump won’t pay $3 million or more in fees from the past three years. Trump’s Save America PAC has been paying some of these bills, along with Trump’s, but they’re running short on cash. As Caputo notes too, paying the bills for co-defendants is one way to incentivize them against cooperating with prosecutors. — Ed]